From 6c44d604a1ee0360a2eaf24b9cac18ca95edcb5f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: nodiscc Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 20:03:00 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] doc: server config: basic usage of robots.txt/HTML robots meta-tag/crawler control mechanisms --- doc/md/Server-configuration.md | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/md/Server-configuration.md b/doc/md/Server-configuration.md index e281dc85..cf44ecf5 100644 --- a/doc/md/Server-configuration.md +++ b/doc/md/Server-configuration.md @@ -397,6 +397,7 @@ http { ``` ## Proxies + If Shaarli is served behind a proxy (i.e. there is a proxy server between clients and the web server hosting Shaarli), please refer to the proxy server documentation for proper configuration. In particular, you have to ensure that the following server variables are properly set: - `X-Forwarded-Proto` @@ -405,6 +406,12 @@ If Shaarli is served behind a proxy (i.e. there is a proxy server between client See also [proxy-related](https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=label%3Aproxy+) issues. +## Robots and crawlers + +Shaarli disallows indexing and crawling of your local documentation pages by search engines, using `` HTML tags. +Your Shaarli instance and other pages you host may still be indexed by various robots on the public Internet. +You may want to setup a robots.txt file or other crawler control mechanism on your server. +See [[1]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_exclusion_standard), [[2]](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6062608?hl=en) and [[3]](https://developers.google.com/search/reference/robots_meta_tag) ## See also